Data analytics is where it's at

The skill that future employers are looking for is not just the ability to string a sentence together. According to billionaire Eric Schmidt, companies will want workers with data analytics knowledge.

The executive chairman of Google's parent company Alphabet told CNBC: "I think a basic understanding of data analytics is incredibly important for this next generation of young people. That's the world you're going into."

He explains: "By data analytics I mean a basic knowledge of how statistics works, a basic knowledge of how people make conclusions over big data."

Gold bar and jewels seized in Credit Suisse probe

The Dutch office for
financial crimes prosecution (FIOD) has tweeted some of the goods it seized as part of a tax fraud investigation into Credit Suisse.

As part of raids across the Netherlands, the UK and France, the FIOD took items including bank accounts, real estate, jewellery, a luxury car, paintings and a gold bar from houses in four Dutch
towns and cities.

Breaking'Disappointed' BMW is open to talks

A spokesman for BMW Group says the company "has always prided itself in providing excellent pensions for its staff and
wants to act now to protect future pension provision for its UK workforce".

He adds: "The company has had a number of planned meetings on the proposed changes since the
start of the consultation process in September last year, and while it is
disappointed by the result of the ballot it remains open to negotiation."

Union members at BMW in the UK have voted "overwhelmingly" in favour of strike action over the planned closure of the pension scheme.

Shadow Finance Minister David Maynier told BBC World News: “The former finance minister was in the first
instance had the confidence of the markets, and had worked with national
treasury to avoid a ratings downgrade, but most important he had fought
tooth and nail during his tenure to avoid the capture of the National Treasury
by President Jacob Zuma and his cronies.”

Mr Maynier added: “Under president Jacob Zuma, the
rand has declined and the economy has been in deep trouble but I do think its
fair to say that the former finance minister did the best he could under
the circumstances in which he found himself and did certainly have the
confidence of the ratings agencies.